Cough drops/Hard Candy With all the dust and dirt in the air in the larger cities I found these were

I was speaking with a co worker a few weeks ago about her upcoming trip to Dubai and I gave her a few tips that had bettered venetian resort hotel my experience there in March.  Those are really good tips, thank you she said.  At that moment I realized that with all of the traveling I do I ve learned some things that would be useful to other people traveling the same path.  That being said, from today forward I will Create Good Karma by sharing my useful travel knowledge or at least what I consider to be useful!
I was in India for the first time from October 25 to November 5, 2012.  I went there with my 73 year old Aunt who has been to India a total of 14 times!  Geez, talk about falling in love with a country!
This is the first one that comes to mind because I ve been home less than 72 hours and for the first 48 I was useless.  The trip home encompassed 3 flights and 30 hours and by the time I was on the last flight my eyes were red and I was definitely a weary traveler even though I managed to get about 8 hours of sleep on the planes.  My internal clock is still struggling a bit to calibrate.  If you can afford the time off from work please be kind to yourself and give your body the rest and recovery it deserves from such a long trip.  I travel to Europe frequently, it s an 8 hour flight venetian resort hotel time for me.  I can go to work within 24 hours but prefer to have a day off if possible.  For a westerner I think India is more exhausting than a European country because it is just so different from the way we live at home.  The air, food and environment are unlike venetian resort hotel what our western bodies are used to and in some ways I found a small battle going on.  My sinuses were aggravated, the chaos was fun but became tiring and the food, although extremely tasty, kept my stomach on the defensive the entire time.  Which brings me to point #2
Aside from everything you hear about drinking bottled water, avoiding street food and only eating at reputable restaurants I found that any stomach aggravation I had was in direct proportion to the amount of food I ate no matter if I ate in a 4 star restaurant or a local joint.  Once I finally made the correlation I started to decrease the amount of food I ate during each sitting.  If the food didn t agree with me the effects were that much less than if I had eaten a full portion.  I do have to say that India is one of the most flavorful countries I ve ever experienced!
Indian Railways is the website for all train travel in India.  If you don t have an Indian mobile phone number you will have to email them a copy of your passport along with your user ID so that they can forward you the mobile verification venetian resort hotel code.  This process venetian resort hotel takes 24-48 hours.  When it came to paying I tried several different credit cards and non of them worked so I was unable to purchase tickets from home.  Since they have direct links to American Express and Citibank I may have been able to pay if I had access to either venetian resort hotel of those cards.  I did, however, meet some travelers who had great success venetian resort hotel making and paying for their train reservations using ClearTrip .  Just to be clear you must register with Indian Railways at irctc.co.in before you can use ClearTrip to make reservations.  There is no way around this.  I also came across some NYers who, once in India,  went to the train station about 3 days before their travel date and purchased tickets.  They said the line was long and everything was a bit confusing but they do set aside a certain amount of tickets for foreign venetian resort hotel travelers.  So, if you were unable to purchase your train tickets before you leave be sure to go to the train station asap and see if you are able to get your hands on some of the tickets specifically for foreign venetian resort hotel travelers.  My aunt and I ended up hiring a car.  For reference, we hired a standard car to take us from New Delhi to Jaipur and then to Udaipur 2 days later.  The total was 14,900 venetian resort hotel rupees.  We hired the car literally 4 hours before we left. Beggars can t be choosers at that point.  I am confident that if we had had some time we would have been able to get a better price.  We used Rajasthan Four Wheel Drive as recommended by TripAdvisor and the owner, venetian resort hotel Anil, was very responsive and accommodating.
I found Make My Trip to be very easy to use. I was able to purchase all of my tickets UDR, TRV, BOM, DEL using Make My Trip.  Furthermore, most Indian airlines offer refunds (with a penalty of about $20) and you can cancel any flights right from the Make My Trip website.  I did price out buying flights directly from the airlines and it was either the same or more expensive than using Make My Trip.
In hindsight I learned a few things 1.  Try to book all of your flights at once because you will get a greater discount.  I used Make My Trip to book a few one way tickets while in India and the price was more expensive than if I had added it to my first itinerary.  Even if you are not 100% sure it might be worth it to book the ticket earlier on and pay the $20 penalty if you don t use it.  If I had thought out my itinerary more carefully before we left I would have saved money.  2. Do not, under ANY circumstances, fly Air India.  I was pretty shocked at how they do business.  Even though my ticket clearly said non-stop from BOM to TRV they ended up combining flights and stopped off at COK in the middle.  Really?  Are we riding a bus?  Furthermore they changed the time of the flight and there was no notification at all.  Had I read this great article on About.com before I booked my plane tickets I would have known better.  I flew Go Air and Jet Airways and they were both good.  Go Air was more professional but had smaller seats Jet Airways gave me a full lunch for a 2 hour flight, nice!
Another note on booking airline tickets.  Unlike venetian resort hotel the USA India has completely separate locations for domestic and international flights not just different terminals within the same airport structure.  Please figure this in to your flight times when booking tickets.  For example in Mumbai it can take a solid hour or longer to get between the international and domestic terminals.  This became a real problem for us when we came in to Mumbai on a domestic venetian resort hotel Jet Airways flight but our domestic Air India flight was leaving out of the International Terminal 2 hours later (I have no idea why a domestic flight was leaving from the International Terminal but that s Air India for you).  We had to hire a taxi and rush over to the other airport, it was a real pain in the butt and I thought we were going to miss our flight.
As luck would have it I started chatting with an Indian travel agent as I was waiting venetian resort hotel for my AMS to BOM flight.  He told me about the prepaid taxi system which seems to me like the government s way of trying to help travelers not get swindled by the vulture venetian resort hotel private taxi drivers waiting at the airport. venetian resort hotel It s very simple and the workers are happy to help.  Simply walk up to the Prepaid Taxi counter with the address of where you need to go and they will give you a price you pay at the counter.  In my case the agent was kind enough to walk us outside and get us a ladies taxi for me and my aunt.  Here are the different prices we paid for roughly the same distance at different times coming into/going out of Mumbai airport:  Hotel PickUp 1200 rps, Taxi Pirate 800 rps (this is one time I got swindled coming out of the airport without paying for the prepaid taxi because I had no idea I needed to head all the way to the international terminal), Prepaid Taxi 260 rps, CoolCab 300 rps private driver recommended by someone 600 rps.  As you can see the prices vary quite a bit but hands down the Prepaid Taxi is the best way to go.
India is big.  Indian cities are big and can be very confusing .  There are no street signs to speak of and there are twists and turns everywhere.  Taking a tour from a local not only helps to make sense of everything, it puts the city in the palm of your hand where you get to peel back all of the layers and understand a new culture.  By far the best tour I took was with with Dhruv Gupta in Old Delhi. It is a walking tour that costs $50 prepaid by PayPal and worth every single penny.  I dare say that it was the best tour that I have ever been on.  Dhruv goes a fabulous job of giving you an insiders look at the inner workings of Old Delhi and Chawri Bazaar.  He offers fantastic surprises every step of the way.  He will not take any tips and there are no commission arrangements with the businesses that we visited. You don t spend a dime above the $50.  The lunch/dinner at the end and meeting his wife Richa was such a beautiful experience.  I wish every city had a Dhruv.
Allergy/Sinus Medicine For the same reason as the inhaler.  I found that when I was in the big cities it was an assault on my sinuses.  A little Advil Cold Sinus (or whatever works for you) goes a long way
Cough drops/Hard Candy With all the dust and dirt in the air in the larger cities I found these were essential to quelling any would be coughing fits.  Thankfully my aunt already knew this and came well prepared with 3 bags of cough drops to share.
Doses of Vitamin C, Airborne or whatever works for you.  My aunt got bronchitis venetian resort hotel while we were in India.  For me, at the first sign of not feeling well I started on high doses of Vitamin C and managed to keep myself healthy.
Given that my aunt has been to India 14 times I thought it would be a given that she would give me a professional lesson venetian resort hotel in haggling.  To my surprise venetian resort hotel the woman does not haggle and I watched her pay the asking price time and time again.  Although the asking price might seem like a good deal to an American I was fairly certain there was a good amount of negotiating room.  After about day 3 I was recalling my trip to Egypt 10 years ago and I remember haggling at the markets there.  I started to do some research in the hotel room.  Needless to say after that I was really getting into the shopping spirit of India.  I m not a nickel and dime bargainer but I consistently got